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'Shouldn't you be in school, girlie?"
Lexi shot her eyes up to the man standing over her. Despite being the larger of the two, Tallboy felt himself shift uncomfortably at the dark look she was giving it — it was all too familiar to FP's. "Do you really wanna stand in my way?"
Tallboy averted his eyes and stepped aside, letting her go through. "King's in his office."
"Thank you, Largeman!" She called over her shoulder sarcastically as she walked through the White Wyrm, not stopping to acknowledge any of the few people left in it. It was mid-day so it was practically vacant besides the few serpents sitting talking business.
It didn't take long to find her uncle sitting at his desk and looking more than stressed out at the amount of papers on his desk. Lexi lingered by the door, frowning as she saw the raw emotion on his face. FP didn't let anyone see him this worried which is why everyone called him the King, he was the only one that wouldn't crack under the pressure of being the Serpent's leader.
Hesitantly, she knocked on the door to let him know she was here seeing as he hadn't looked up from the bills in his hands. His worried face was quickly replaced with a cautious one, trying to ignore the knowing look in her eyes — it was the same one her mother used to give him before he helped her move to the Northside when she got pregnant with Toby.
"You need something?" He asked, leaning back in his chair and raising his eyebrow at her.
She sighed, wishing he would be a nice 'how can I help' uncle rather than the 'I'd shut the door in your face without a second thought if I could be arsed to stand up' uncle that he was.
"You know why I'm here, your majesty," she mocked as she took the seat across from him. "Did he make it?"
FP clenched his jaw, knowing she wasn't going to like the answer. "No."
Lexi felt the air being knocked straight of her lungs. "What?"
"Our guy missed his last transaction." FP stood up from the desk and walked towards the door. Lexi thought he was leaving but when she heard the blinds close after he shut the door, she turned to face him. His sharp eyes bored into hers, "I, uh, I found this in a car by the lake."
Lexi glanced down to see he was now holding a football jacket causing her skin to pale in dread. "What does that mean?"
She stood up and took the jacket from him and held it up to see what numbers were on the back. It was Jason's number. Glancing up to FP with glassy eyes, she managed to keep her voice steady as she asked again. "What does that mean?"
